Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of class, students will be able to...

  • analyze text as evidenced by discussion and notes.

Due Today:

  • Declaration of Independence annotations and summary sentences

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Due Block 10/12: Declaration of Independence chart, claim, anticipatory guide

Essential Questions:

  • What are the philosophical assumptions of rationalists and how do they show up in texts?
  • How does history influence texts?

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  • Rationalism Summative Exam moved to next week on Block Day 10/20

  • English 11 Tutoring begins today after school in Ms. Savino's room 702
Agenda
1. Learning Logs- Update
2. Quick Write On Back of Learning Log: Rationalist Beliefs

How does the Rationalist philosophy manifest itself in the Declaration of Independence? Use the following template:

Ex: Rationalists believed that . This belief is also demonstrated in line of the Declaration of Independence, where Thomas Jefferson states_. In other words, elaborate.



3. Declaration of Independence:
  1. Anticipatory Guide
  2. Pre-Reading Steps
  3. Read and Annotate-
    1. highlight and label examples ofparallelism/parallel structure
    2. Circle vocabulary and words you do not know
    3. 1 summary sentence for each section in the margin
      1. Par 1
      2. Par 2
      3. Par 3-29 (summarize what is being said overall)
      4. Par 30
      5. Par 31
      6. Par 32

  1. Complete the Charting Sequence
    1. Use your summaries to fill in the "Content/Saying" side
    2. Think about what the author is doing to fill in the doing side
    3. What is the main claim?

4. Visual Text: Liberty in the Form of a Goddess
  • Pre-reading on back of learning log
    • Record everything you notice, colors, objects, shapes, content

  • Analyze
    • Follow the steps to analyze the visual text